University of Cape Town

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Cape Town*

Anthropology of Gesture: Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019)

Edited by Heather Brookes & Olivier Le Guen

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Gesture Studies | Signed languages

[Gesture, 18:2/3] 2021. | special issue

Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition

Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert & William L. Leap

Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

2009. xxvi, 502 pp. | text book

Literacies, Global and Local

Edited by Mastin Prinsloo & Mike Baynham

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language teaching | Writing and literacy

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 2] 2008. vii, 218 pp. | edited volume

Introducing Sociolinguistics

Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert & William L. Leap

Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

2000. 528 pp. | text book

Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics

Edited by George Wolf & Nigel Love

Subjects Philosophy | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 148] 1997. xxviii, 344 pp. | edited volume

The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa

Edited by Mastin Prinsloo, Mignonne Breier & Brian Street

Subjects Writing and literacy

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 4] 1996. viii, 279 pp. | course book

Mesthrie, Rajend 2025 World Englishes and the third space: Insights from multilingual practices in Xhosa and English

Keywords: bilingualism | code-switching | loanword adaptation | logical connectors | third space | Xhosa

In: World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies, Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein & Manuela Vida-Mannl (eds.) [Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 9] pp. 20–37 | open access

Cornips, Leonie, Ana Deumert & Alastair Pennycook 2024 Posthumanism and pragmatics

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment, Vandenbroucke, Mieke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard & Sigurd D’hondt (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 27] pp. 169–185

Navarro, Federico, Theresa Lillis, Tiane Donahue, Mary Jane Curry, Natalia Ávila Reyes, Magnus Gustafsson, Virginia Zavala, Daniela Lauría, Annabelle Lukin, Carolyn McKinney, Haiying Feng & Désirée Motta-Roth 2022 Rethinking English as a lingua franca in scientific-academic contexts: A position statement

Keywords: English for academic purposes | academic conferences | global knowledge making | sociolinguistic rights | language policies/politics | decoloniality | inglés para fines específicos | congresos científicos | producción internacional de conocimiento | derechos sociolingüísticos | políticas lingüísticas | decolonialidad

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 3:1 pp. 143–153 | article

Andrason, Alexander & Admire Phiri 2022 Talking to animals in a moribund language: Pragma-semantics, phonetics, and morphology of conative animal calls in Tjwao

Keywords: Kalahari Khoe | Tjwao | interactives | conative animal calls | pragma-semantics | phonetics | morphology

Linguistic Variation 23:2 pp. 318–342 | article

Deumert, Ana 2022 The sound of absent-presence: Towards formulating a sociolinguistics of the spectre

Keywords: translingualism | spectres | sociolinguistics | postcolony | voice | visibility

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 pp. 135–153 | article

Everson, Vanessa 2019 translating a weighty matter

Keywords: translation | context | ethical | culture | narrative | reception | traduction | contexte | culture | éthique | réception | narrative

Babel 66:3 pp. 381–392 | article

Brookes, Heather & Olivier Le Guen 2021 Gesture studies and anthropological perspectives: An introduction

Keywords: gesture | anthropology | ethnographic method | anthropological sensibility

Gesture 18:2/3 pp. 119–141 | introduction

Deumert, Ana 2018 Settler colonialism speaks: Early contact varieties in Namibia during German colonial rule

Keywords: Namibia | German | Otjiherero | colonialism | creolistics | jargons | scripts of servitude | scripts of supremacy

Language Ecology 2:1/2 p. 91 | article

Ovendale, Alice, Heather Brookes, Jean-Marc Colletta & Zain Davis 2018 The role of gestural polysigns and gestural sequences in teaching mathematical concepts: The case of halving

Keywords: gesture | learning | polysign | gesture sequence | mathematics

Gesture 17:1 pp. 128–157 | article

Brenzinger, Matthias 2018 Sharing thoughts, concepts and experiences: Fieldwork on African languages

In: Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah & Diana Forker (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] pp. 45–60

Nefdt, Ryan M. 2018 Languages and other abstract structures

Keywords: foundations of linguistics | ontology | linguistic realism | Platonism | philosophy of mathematics

In: Essays on Linguistic Realism, Behme, Christina & Martin Neef (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 196] pp. 139–184

Mesthrie, Rajend 2017 Braj B. Kachru (1932–2016)

English World-Wide 38:1 pp. 1–4 | obituary

Toefy, Tracey 2017 Revisiting the kit-split in Coloured South African English

Keywords: South African English | kit vowel | social class | Coloured | kit split | social change

English World-Wide 38:3 pp. 336–363 | article

Brookes, Heather 2016 Review of Body talk and cultural identity in the African world: A review by Augustine Agwuele ((2015))

Gesture 15:3 pp. 425–430 | book review

McKinney, Carolyn, Hannah Carrim, Alex Marshall & Laura Layton 2015 What counts as language in South African schooling?: Monoglossic ideologies and children’s participation

Keywords: language ideologies | classroom discourse | heteroglossia | language policy

AILA Review 28:1 pp. 103–126 | article | open access

Marais, Adele 2016 ‘Performing identity’: A narrative analysis of young people’s talk of intimate partner violence

Keywords: young adults | Intimate partner violence | self-presentation | identity | unstructured interviews | performance | interaction | narrative analysis | narrative-discursive

Narrative Inquiry 25:2 pp. 242–263 | article

Mesthrie, Rajend 2014 How non-Indo-European is Fanakalo pidgin?: Selected understudied structures in a Bantu-lexified pidgin with Germanic substrates

In: Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters, Buchstaller, Isabelle, Anders Holmberg & Mohammad Almoaily (eds.) [Creole Language Library, 47] p. 85

Mesthrie, Rajend & Alida Chevalier 2014 Sociophonetics and the Indian diaspora: The NURSE vowel and other selected features in South African Indian English

Keywords: (th) variation | age | aspiration | gender | NURSE vowel | retroflexion | social class | sociophonetics | South African Indian English

In: English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne & Devyani Sharma (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G50] p. 85

Wilmot, Kirstin 2014 “Coconuts” and the middle-class: Identity change and the emergence of a new prestigious English variety in South Africa

Keywords: English school identity | DRESS vowel | social class | coconut | accent | South African English (SAfE) | TRAP vowel | GOOSE vowel | language attitudes | identity

English World-Wide 35:3 pp. 306–337 | article

Mesthrie, Rajend & Ellen Hurst 2013 Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa: An analytic overview of tsotsitaals with special reference to the Cape Town variety

Keywords: Iscamtho | Tsotsitaal | restructuring | code switching | youth varieties | urban varieties | slang

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:1 pp. 103–130 | article

Deumert, Ana 2012 Giving voice: The archive in Afrikaans historical linguistics

In: Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten, van der Wouden, Ton (ed.) [Creole Language Library, 44] pp. 377–388

Brookes, Heather J. 2012  Amangama amathathu ‘The three letters’: The emergence of a quotable gesture (emblem)

Keywords: emblems | quotable gestures | symbolization | South Africa | HIV/AIDS | stigma | taboo

Gesture 11:2 pp. 194–218 | article

Mesthrie, Rajend 2009 Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English: Accelerated linguistic change amongst young, middle class females in post-apartheid South Africa

In: World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas & Lucia Siebers (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G40] p. 3

Mesthrie, Rajend 2008 "I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it": Towards a unified account of tsotsitaals in South Africa.

Keywords: anti-language | code-mixing | code-switching | Flaaitaal | Iscamtho | new languages | relexification | secret language | slang | South African English | Tsotsitaal | Zulu

In: Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam & Naomi Nagy (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 24] p. 95

Deumert, Ana & Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana 2008 Mobile language choices — The use of English and isiXhosa in text messages (SMS): Evidence from a bilingual South African sample

Keywords: code-mixing / switching | isiXhosa | South Africa | language choice | English | SMS

English World-Wide 29:2 pp. 117–147 | article

Ross, Fiona 2008 Linguistic Bearings and Testimonial Practices

In: Discourse and Human Rights Violations, Anthonissen, Christine & Jan Blommaert (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 5] pp. 101–113

Blommaert, Jan, Mary Bock & Kay McCormick 2008 Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings: On the hearability of hidden transcripts

In: Discourse and Human Rights Violations, Anthonissen, Christine & Jan Blommaert (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 5] pp. 33–63

Mesthrie, Rajend 2006 Anti-deletions in an L2 grammar: A study of Black South African English mesolect

Keywords: Black South African English | deletion | grammar of World Englishes | L2 grammar | undeletion | antideletion

English World-Wide 27:2 pp. 111–145 | article

Ellis, George F.R. & Judith A. Toronchuk 2008 Neural development: Affective and immune system influences

In: Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception, Ellis, Ralph D. & Natika Newton (eds.) [Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 1] p. 81

Mesthrie, Rajend 2005 Putting back the horse before the cart: The “spelling form” fallacy in Second Language Acquisition studies, with special reference to the treatment of unstressed vowels in Black South African English

Keywords: South African English | Black South African English | Second language acquisition | phonology | spelling pronunciation | unstressed vowels | Bantu languages

English World-Wide 26:2 pp. 127–151 | article

Mesthrie, Rajend 2004 Review of An Introduction to International Varieties of English by Laurie Bauer (2002)

English World-Wide 25:1 pp. 133–136 | book review

Luijks, Carla A. 2000 Review of Die Creol Taal: 250 years of Negerhollands texts by Cefas van Rossem & Hein van der Voort (1996)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:1 pp. 207–211 | book review

Lass, Roger 2003 Remarks on (uni)directionality

In: Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach & Dieter Stein (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] pp. 207–227

Mesthrie, Rajend 1997 Review of A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles by Penny Silva (1996)

English World-Wide 18:1 pp. 146–151 | book review

Lass, Roger 1995 Four Letters in Search of an Etymology

Diachronica 12:1 p. 99 | other

Lass, Roger 1992 The Early Modern English Short Vowels Noch Einmal, Again: A Reply to Minkova & Stockwell

Diachronica 9:1 pp. 1–13 | article

Love, Nigel 1992 The Historiography of Grammatical Concepts: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Changes in the Subject-Predicate Conception and the Problem of Their Historical Reconstruction. By Els Elffers-Van Ketel

Historiographia Linguistica 19:1 pp. 152–157 | book review

Lass, Roger 1989 How Early does English Get 'Modern'? or, What Happens if You Listen to Orthoepists and not to Historians

Diachronica 6:1 p. 75 | article

Mesthrie, Rajend 1989 The Origins of Fanagalo

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 4:2 pp. 211–240 | article

Lass, Roger 1988 Review of Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Onofrio Carruba & Giuliano Bernini (1987)

Diachronica 5:1/2 pp. 239–246 | book review

Love, Nigel 1986 Review of Productivité morphologique et emprunt by W. Zwanenburg (1983)

Studies in Language 10:2 pp. 534–541 | book review

Lass, Roger 1986 Conventionalism, Invention, and 'Historical Reality': Some Reflections on Method

Diachronica 3:1 pp. 15–42 | article

Love, Nigel 1983 Review of (An Introduction to) Old French Morphophonology by Douglas C. Walker (1981)

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 7:1 pp. 187–191 | book review

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.